Forest cover fraction (CGLS-LC100)#

forest-cover-fraction · theme land · live

Copernicus Global Land Service 100 m tree-cover fraction, collection 3. Epoch 2019 is the last one the service produced; Earth Engine also serves the 2015-2018 epochs.

import easysnowdata as esd

aoi = (-121.94, 46.72, -121.54, 46.99)   # Mount Rainier
data = esd.land.forest_cover.load(aoi)

No account needed for the default route

source="zenodo" is open. source="gee" needs earthengine — see the credentials page.

Sources#

2 routes serve this product; the first is the default and source= picks another. The return contract is the same either way.

source

provider

credentials

resolution

extent

temporal

latency

notes

zenodo (default)

raster_http

none

100 m

global

static (2019)

—

one global GeoTIFF read with range requests; no credentials

gee

gee

earthengine

100 m

global

2015-2019 (annual epochs)

—

adds the earlier epochs and the other LC100 cover fractions

Where each route points#

zenodo — Zenodo GeoTIFF live

https://zenodo.org/record/3939050/files/PROBAV_LC100_global_v3.0.1_2019-nrt_Tree-CoverFraction-layer_EPSG-4326.tif

gee — Earth Engine live

COPERNICUS/Landcover/100m/Proba-V-C3/Global

Variables#

variable

units

dtype

nodata

categorical

tree_cover_fraction

%

uint8

255

no

Provenance#

Licence · CC BY 4.0

DOI · 10.5281/zenodo.3939050

Cite the data as

Buchhorn, M., et al. (2020). Copernicus Global Land Service: Land Cover 100m: collection 3: epoch 2019: Globe (V3.0.1). Zenodo.

Documentation

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